At the 1982 Reno Air Races, Mortesen and the AMSOIL Racer took second place, with an average race speed of 209.21 mph (336.69 km/h), just 0.3 seconds behind the winner, again Sundancer.

Mortesen then set out to break speed records. The first was the Class C.1.b (1,000-2,000 pound take off weight) 3 km closed course, which the AMSOIL Racer beat with a speed of 232 mph (373 km/h). The second record achieved was over a 75-mile (121 km) closed course, which was accomplished with a speed of 235 mph (378 km/h).

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Nauga and Slopememo, thanks for your recommendations. Looks like I need to lift the bar a little bit higher now ......

I love that Thorn-style approach, just that my workshop is not equipped to carve that nice smooth wing yet....

I tried the bagged EPP on my ODS wing a few weeks back. They are very smooth, stiff and light. Best of all, they still bounce like the regular EPP. May be that's a better steping stone before "composite wing + molded fuse" .

How about the ARES micro ground attack A/C, If I had had the money a R/C flyer in Fla. was selling the mold's for the fuse/center section and the right's to produce. I saw his gas jet turbine one fly and it was awesome, I have the 3-view's around here somewhere.

Years ago I built an AmsOil powered by an OS91FS ad you can see in the attached picture.
It flew beautifully,but took off from paved surfaces only.
The wheels position would pose serious problem when landing on slope too.
I think that every landing could be no other than a crash landing.
A czech modeler have done a model for AeroFly Professional de luxe simulator ,see the other picture.
It's not yet available,but will be un a short time,look at this site:www.ivok.cz

The Raptor, Ares and Pond-Racer look pretty cool Reading about the amosil Racer's demise is interesting too. Crashed at 200mph during the Reno air-races after entering dirty air behind another racer at 11 meters altitude... pilot got out with minor injuries thanks to Rutan designing the cockpit to survive 22G crashes...